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Patrick Williams: Home Suite Home
by Edward Blanco
Composer, arranger and band leader Patrick Williams leads some of the finest jazz musicians in L.A. on another exciting portrait of big band swing on Home Suite Home, an album that's far more personal than all of his previous works. Documenting a personal homage to his family and his first musical love, Williams pays tribute to his children and wife stating I tried to capture the essence of the personality of my wife and three children in musical terms...""is truly ...
read moreMary Lou Williams: A Grand Night for Swinging
by George Kanzler
If Mary Lou Williams had never resumed her career after she abandoned it for religious reasons in the early 1950s, her paramount place in jazz history would still be secure. As a pianist, composer and arranger from the late 1920s through the 1940s, she was the music's premiere female musician, working with the likes of Andy Kirk, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington during the Swing Era. And when bebop came along, Williams embraced it and befriended the likes ...
read morePatrick Williams: Threshold
by Eric Pettine
Patrick Williams Threshold Capitol 1973 Throughout most of the 1960s, Patrick Williams was one of many composers/arrangers kicking around the NYC studio music scene. In the late '60s he arranged/composed several Muzak-molded LPs ( Heavy Vibrations , Think and Shades of Today among them) that only occasionally hinted at the ebullience and brilliance unleashed on his 1974 Grammy Award winning album Threshold. Perhaps due to his nationally successful composing/arranging credits for ...
read morePatrick Williams Is Gone
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Sorry to learn that composer, arranger and bandleader Patrick Williams died yesterday at 79. Prolific in his work for motion pictures and television, Williams was sometimes taken for granted—but never by fellow members of the arranging fraternity or by the musicians who took part in recordings of his ingenious, often demanding, arrangements. Frank Sinatra chose Williams to do the arrangements for the singer’s final studio albums. Williams’ work on television series brought him several Grammy nominations. His music accompanied Colombo, ...
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Leonard Maltin As Master Of Ceremonies Musicians At Play Foundation June 13 2015
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April Williams
“Musicians at Play” Foundation debuts with first concert “The Vintage Masters of Swing” will headline The Broad Stage June 13th with composers—Alexander, Carmichael, Holman, Nestico, Sherman and Williams with Leonard Maltin as Master of Ceremonies Musicians at Play a 501 (c) 3 non-profit foundation dedicated to the enrichment of local communities' quality of life through a variety of music performances and fine arts presentations announced it’s first concert. “We are excited to present The Vintage Masters of Swing All-Star Big ...
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Patrick Williams is Working on a New Project with Artistshare!
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All About Jazz
Well-known composer, Patrick Williams is working on a new project. This new project will provide music-minus-one-track which allows young professionals or even students to submit their own solo part. Patrick will choose one soloist to record with him and his band. Also, there will be the reissue of Threshold as the 35th anniversary of the album. The project page is not up on ArtistShare website yet so please visit Patrick Williams' website and ArtistShare website frequently.
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